Hi! Wanna ask lang if there are any people na nag-iintay pa rin scholarship results nila? Been waiting since last week kaso wala pa talaga akong kahit anong updates or email na natatanggap regarding my application T-T
(I've actually submitted my accept offer form na rin earlier last week pa but I havent received the acknowledgement email pa rin since as Sir Jed told me na I have to wait for my results before being able to actually reserve/ confirm my slot kaso no results pa rin for me :(( )
Thank u in advance!

Hello,
For most of my undergrad my parents have had an income very firmly within the Cal Grant income limit; I've confirmed this with their tax forms each time I've filed. I've qualified for it for the past three years. This filing, they barely passed the upper limit, losing my Cal Grant. At the same time, my sister also is about to start undergrad and, assuming we were going to get Cal Grant, she committed to a UC. Of course, I am privileged to be in this position where my parents have a net income high enough. Still, their incomes are definitely not sufficient and our financial situation is not strong enough to support the both of us going to college simultaneously. Bad timing with the changes to the FAFSA sibling discount I guess.
Is there anything I can do? Can I negotiate with my FA office? I work full-time over breaks and part-time over the semester. I've applied to and gotten some scholarships. We also have the MCS, but that also just isn't enough. My family is panicked over this. I'm usually the one organizing the documents for FA, so it's my fault for not double checking things this time around because I just thought it would be the same as previous years. I feel especially bad about that. I'm sorry if this comes off as tone-deaf or too privileged, that isn't my intention. Thank you for any help.

Hi all,
I was just curious as to if the merit/scholarship money offered on the financial aid form sent to us sometime between now and the last 2 weeks so is our FINAL AMOUNT. (Not counting loans.)
I’m coming from single-parent income and overall had received pretty good scholarship money at all other colleges I applied too (including other UC’s)
For example, does UCI not do the middle class scholarship..? A friend of mine received it for UCSC and UCSB and i was given it by UCSB but i don’t see it on my financial offer from UCI.
Is there any other ways to potentially increase my scholarship/merit amount?? UCI offered me close to nothing while I got quite a bit offered at every other UC I applied to (SB, SD etc) and elsewhere so it just really threw me off since UCI was my goal school and I was really hoping to have the total cost be around the same as for the other UC’s I had applied to like SB as I really don’t wanna be taking out a ton more in loans at UCI than I would elsewhere, if possible.
Already submitted my SIR so I’ll likely be going to UCI with the intention of SWE anyways but just wanted to know.
Sorry I wrote a lot I just have no idea how to go about this lol. Thank you to anyone who can help!! have a nice day

Context

This project is for an invoice application that generates a pdf from a button click. Its plain and simple, approched with the MVP concept. Over time, I did add a few details but they do not interfere with the PDF generation.

My Tool Belt

The tools I've used for R&D are:

• M1 with Sonoma 14.3.1,
• Visual Studio Code Version: 1.89.1 (Universal),
• Latest PHP version (8.2),
• FPDF (1.86),
• Latest MySQL (8.X),
• Brave, FireFox and Safari (Latest Version),
• Perplexity AI (GPT 3.5)

Problem

In the latest FPDF version, I want to change the words thats coming from a MySQL database to be bigger in size AND displayed in the same CELL. This means displaying the following:

Cell(190, 5, "NAME: " . $data['name'], "B", 0, "L"); } } ?> 

where the name column (from MySQL), should be bigger in font size than "NAME: " in the output.

What I Tried

I've used the following methods (from FPDF), with no success:

1. MultiCell
2. SetFont
3. GetY
4. GetX
5. Ln
6. SetFontSize
7. SetX
8. SetY
9. SetXY
10. Write

Yes, I did look on StackOverFlow and Googled it, and as similar as the titles are to solving my problem, they do not provide the actual solution. I also verfied just now if there are any answers out there to answer my question as my last chance. There are none :( . I need to make the data from MySQL bigger like in the PDF from Acrobat where you're filling out a form. Imagine filling out a PDF form for the goverment or scholarships, they make the user inputs bigger that the hard-coded string.
The mentioned methods used were also the ones I've implemented to solve this problem. I've used many more methods that aren't mentioned, and they obviously lead to nowhere.

What I Got

I am currently stuck on the Cell method and from researching article, youtube videos and blog posts, have gotten no where near to my goal.

Quick Review

Heres the documentation:

• FPDF Official Documentation

I've broken the outer rim on at least 3 of the Landy's wheels and 3 of the Buggy's wheels and just now broke yet another on the Buggy within minutes of testing it out. Part of this may be due to my insistence on using matte PLA which isn't known for layer adhesion. On the Landy, I switched to black PC from white matte PLA and have not had another issue but it's also not seen many hours since the change. On the Buggy, I switched to white PETG form the matte while PLA and it seems stronger but then again I just broke another one today. I don't know for sure if it was due to the tire slipping off and exposing the wheel or if I'm asking too much of the design.
Just found this saved draft from who knows how long ago. I reworked and printed some wheels off Printables this week for the Landy since I broke two of the PC wheels. If these don’t last, I’ll adapt store bought wheels.

Yesterday someone made just a great post about the mythological icon Lilith and someone commented about being caught off guard it didn't end up being about Diablo to which someone replied stating that no one makes rants about Diablo 4. Well get dunked on because I'm making a rant about Diablo 4. (mods this is meant as a joke, please do not interpret as a violation of the rules for being a response rant or a repeat rant).
Diablo as a series is pretty classically grim dark. Things are basically always exclusively getting worse for everyone all the time and every time something gets better there is some major caveat that makes something else worse. Stuff like being forced to ally ourselves with entities who most definitely do not have our best interests at heart (or quite frequently openly have our best disinterests at heart like making a deal with the literal embodiment of hatred). Diablo 4 asks us to make such choice and presents us with two, let's say not great options.
Lilith a demon who claims to have humanities best interests at heart. She is humanities ancient mother after all. She says this while leaving a trail of destruction in her wake. The main gist of her plan is to absorb the fragmented remains of her father's power. Mephisto one of the prime evils and Lord of Hatred. She claims that with this power she will be strong enough to empower humanity enough that they will be able to stand against the Burning Hells and High Heaven and escape from the Eternal Conflict. Doesn't sound so bad, but I'll reiterate that everyone she interacts and bestows her particular brand of blessing on -- the Wanderer notwithstanding -- goes violently insane.
Inarius an angel who couldn't more clearly not give a single fuck about humanity if he tried. His "plan" is to kill Lilith in hopes that will redeem him enough that his exile will be rescinded and he can go back to High Heaven.
There you have it. Mom and Dad have formed cults and using them to wage proxy wars with one another and their extended families. This of course mirrors the same Eternal Conflict bullshit that has been ruining humanity's collective day since Lilith and Inarius originally got it on and made Sanctuary. Now pick a team.
Except, there is a third option. The immortal factions on opposing sides of the Eternal Conflict see only themselves. Mortals are fundamentally weaker than them and all we're good for are hunting for sport, being pitied for the whole hunted for sport thing, being cleansed as the unholy half-demon abominations we are, and waging proxy wars. They're super wrong though. Humanity collectively is more than capable of competing. Between the scholarship of the Horadrim and occasional very gifted human humanity does a more of the leg work for solving the whole Prime Evil problem than the angels do.
"Gifted human" is also me really understating things. Most Diablo player characters are incredibly strong. Regularly beating champions on both sides of the Eternal Conflict. I say most because the Diablo 3 protagonist, the Nephalem, scales so high that they're kind of a writing problem. "Incredibly strong" doesn't cut it. They beat Diablo after he absorbed the other lords of hell becoming the Prime Evil. Later the Nephalem beats Malthael, the archangel of death who himself absorbed the evils trapped in the Black Soulstone to try and level the playing field. Hell, depending on how canon you consider Adventure Mode in Diablo 3 is the Nephalem (the collective people, not just the player character) are so powerful the best way they could challenge themselves was to create the Nephalem Rifts which are basically pocket dimensions of pure violence because angels and demons just can't keep up. Greater Rifts are basically what would happen if in his boredom Saitama from One Punch Man developed expressly to be able to create things strong enough to give him a real fight.
With this all said if humanity ever buckles down, unites into a cohesive whole and puts all their combined effort into fighting both the Burning Hells and High Heaven they could probably finally end the Eternal Conflict with both sides losing leading to Sanctuary exiting stage left as a grim dark setting.
Demons and Angels both suck for humans (though clearly demons are consistently a lot worse). Humanity's salvation will only come when it is taken by force. It will never be granted to us in a magnanimous act by our immortal ancestors. Fuck Team Lilith. Fuck Team Inarius. Team Humanity? Fuck Yeah!

I am fully decided on a school due to mission fit, location, match list, etc. However, the school is offering me a grand total of $0 in need-based aid. They did require my parent's tax information to determine my aid package, even though I am completely independent. On top of that, my parents live in a very HCOL area. Even though their income is higher than the national average, it is lower than the median in their area. They are not rich. Far from it. My dad is a bus driver and my parents own only the house they're living in and paying a mortgage for. I myself have been working pretty low-wage scribe and research jobs the past few years so I am likewise not ballin. I got through undergrad through need-based scholarships and Pell Grant, and my/my parent's financial situation is largely the same. Also the school mentioned that like 60+% of students get some form of aid, so I was a little surprised to see that I am getting zilch. Is this just the norm? Would it be advisable to ask for a reconsideration? Any other tips to get finaid/scholarship/grant money?
Thanks for the advice. As the first in my fam to do this medical school thing, I am just trying to figure things out :')

Darrell Grant Quartet: MJ New - Thursday, June 13, 2024 at The Sound Room, Oakland
Darrell Grant's MJ New takes audiences on a journey from the heart of the HarlemRenaissance to Vienna, Brazil, and back again. Skillfully marrying classical counterpoint and the blues with refined swing inspired by their namesake, the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet, the group illuminates the diverse traditions of Black American Music.
Formed by Darrell Grant in 2013, MJ New brings together four storied West Coast scene-makers. Portland-based pianist/bandleader Darrell Grant is a veteran of the bands of Betty Carter, Tony Williams, and Roy Haynes. Since the release of his debut album Black Art, one of the New York Times'top ten jazz CDs, Grant has built an international reputation as a pianist, composer, and educator who channels the power of music to make change. He is the recipient of a Northwest Regional Emmy,Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, MAP Fund grant, and the Governor’s Arts Award, his state’s highest arts honor. He is a Professor of Music at Portland State University, where he directs the Artist as Citizen Initiative.
Bassist, composer, arranger, educator, and bandleader Marcus Shelby is a figure synonymous with Bay Area jazz and the spirit of collaboration. A recipient of the Charles Mingus Scholarship, Shelby attended Cal Arts and studied with Charlie Haden and James Newton while working simultaneously with the all-star jazz ensemble Black/Note, who released a series of highly regarded albums in the1990s. Since moving to the Bay Area, he has led a highly regarded jazz orchestra and many smallgroups, with large-scale commissions focused on the history,present, and future of the African-American experience.
Vibraphonist Mike Horsfall has performed with Chuck Redd and Leroy Vinegar. He has recorded with Pink Martini, Nu Shooz Orchestra, and Tall Jazz, a trio he co-founded in 1989 which was voted into the Jazz Society of Oregon’s 2010 Hall ofFame. He serves on the music faculty at Willamette University.
Drummer Cecil Brooks III has recorded and toured with Stanley Turrentine, John Hicks, Geri Allen, and Pharoah Sanders. In addition to several albums as a leader and session work in both hard bop and bebop settings, Brooks is an award-winning producer of over 50 albums on the Savoy, Muse, & 32 Jazz labels and is the founder and proprietor of the celebrated New Jersey jazz club Cecil’s. He relocated to LosAngeles in 2010 a frequent performer at West Coast venues and festivals
Tickets - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896351871577?aff=oddtdtcreator

As the title indicates, Dr. M. David Litwa has kindly offered to be the guest of our next AMA ("Ask Me Anything") event two days from now!
Dr. M. David Litwa is a historian who specializes in ancient Mediterranean religions and their intersection with the New Testament and early Christianity. He earned his PhD from the University of Virginia, and has taught courses at Virginia Tech, the College of William & Mary, and the University of Virginia. He also previously served as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, and is currently working with Boston College.
One of Dr. Litwa’s current goals is to make knowledge accessible to a wide public audience. So beyond the AMA, I highly encourage checking out his blog here. In addition, he has a host of other resources available, including his YouTube channel, where he frequently uploads both short-form and long-form content about his scholarship. Dr. Litwa also has a Patreon, with membership tiers ranging from early access to his videos, access to his academic reviews and articles, signed physical copies of his books, and even personal, one-on-one weekly language instruction with him directly!
Dr. Litwa’s many published books are available here for purchase. Particularly affordable are his Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God, his Found Christianities: Remaking the World of the Second Century CE, and his How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths which is also available on Audible!
Finally, beyond the AMA event with Dr. Litwa, he also has an ongoing webinar, Re-Dating the Gospels without Apologetics, that’s available for registration now. I’ve mentioned it before in previous posts, but Dr. Litwa has decided to still allow for registration even now that the webinar series has started, it was just offered at a reduced price during the previous announcement. For more information please see his latest video about the ongoing webinar on his channel here. Those who sign up for his webinar also get a free PDF copy of his monograph, We Are Beings Transformed, as well as full complementary access to the rest of his blog where he makes regular posts. The webinar series ends June 16th, so I highly encourage checking it out!
A variety of Dr. Litwa’s past courses are also available on his website here. Topics include Marcion, Carpocrates & Secret Mark, The Naassenes, Nag Hammadi, and more to come!
The AMA will take place on Wednesday, May 15th. The AMA post will go up in the morning, and solicit questions throughout the day until around 8:00 PM EST, after which the questions will be sent to Dr. Litwa who will make a response to them on his YouTube channel.
If needed, you can use this page to convert timezones.

Why should we care?

Zen and Science are both less popular than Neo-Christian New Age on social media. I think this is do in large part to Ttump's Presidency, which encouraged people across the political spectrum to believe what they felt should be true, rather than reason from facts.
This "feelings over facts" was especially true for people who, 60+ years later, are still getting their information about Zen, China, Buddhism, etc. from the likes of Japanese Buddhists, Alan Watts, and other long ago debunked claims: www.reddit.com//zen/wiki/fraudulent_texts. Nazis. Who the @#$# would believe that Nazi scholarship on Japan would be a basis for understand Zen history over Blue Cliff Record?
Yet a Neo-Christian New Ager is currently sitting at 19 upvotes on our front page, despite admitting in the comments that he had no evidence in support of his claims.

How do Zen and Science contrast with Neo-Christian New Age?

1. Demonstrations in reality as opposed to "I’ll take my mystical experience and realization over decades of poring over books for the truth"
   
   • Science is based on collecting data and replicating others' data collection
   • Zen is a tradition of public interview, with 1,000 years of data collection in the form of historical records, mostly transcripts.
   • Neo-Christian New Age is about mystical experience, not anything from reality that could be written in a book.
2. Zen and Science acknowledge history, Neo-Christian New Age has anti-historical claims
   
   • Zen Masters and science talk about what we agree happened. Neo-Christian New age invents history
3. Zen and Science talk about finding truth in reality. Neo-Christian new age talks about mysticism as the basis for truth
   
   • Foyan, in particular, rejects mysticism in the way Huangbo rejects Buddhism.

Foyan Wrekks Neo-Christian New Age "mysticismers"

Some people immediately declare, “ I have nothing to say at all, and no reason either.” They do not realize this is in fact a rationalization!

• If you can't answer questions, excuses/rationalizations won't save you.

They make a cliche of "your own mind" and then try to use mind to realize mind.

• Without cliches, mysticismers will fall apart. How often they try to sound original, but fail.

There is another type of Zen teacher who tells people not to make logical assessments, that they lose contact the minute they speak, and should recognize the primordial. This kind of “ teacher” has no explanation at all.

• Mysticismers brag about there being "no possible explanation"... that's fine in churcher forums... but not in secular forums.

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Welcome! ewk comment: Foyan has a ton of these... he's very down to earth, materialistic even. Like Huangbo is anti-Buddhist. Still, if you don't read the book, what will you have to discuss?

Hey everyone,
I wanted to share my recent experience applying for a Belgium Schengen visa, and let me tell you, it was far from smooth sailing.
A little background: I'm currently pursuing my Master's in the UK on a European Union scholarship. This scholarship aims to enhance understanding and knowledge about the EU. Since Brexit, this is the last year scholars can study in the UK under this program, making me one of the final recipients of this scholarship studying in the UK.
I've been working in the public sector in my home country since 2019, so aside from the monthly salary, all my expenses are covered by scholarship. Also I work part time in the UK.
As part of the program, all scholars are supposed to meet in Brussels for a visit to the EU Parliament and other related activities. So, naturally, I applied for a Belgium Schengen visa to facilitate this trip. All trip expenses will be covered by the scholarship again but in any case I had shown more than enough savings.
Now, here's where things got frustrating. Despite having a solid track record of Schengen visas (five in total since 2015, including a D type visa for Portugal) with durations of at least six months each of them, and visas for the US (still 8 years valid) and Japan and obviously UK my application for Belgium was met with disappointment.
In my motivational letter, I explained the purpose of my trip - a three-day visit to Brussels for the planned activities, followed by a desire to explore more of Europe during the summer break. Despite this, I was granted a multi-entry visa, but with a duration of only seven days. Seven days!
This limitation feels like a missed opportunity, especially considering the aim of my scholarship and the fact that I've been a responsible visa holder in the past.
To add insult to injury, the application process itself was a nightmare. The TLS contact in Manchester, where I applied, left much to be desired. The fees were excessive, and the service was subpar.
You have to complete an additional form in the center why you want to go to Belgium :) That's funny because all it is written in application form. I have applied Schengen visa many times seriously this is the worst in general.
Overall, my experience with applying for a Belgium Schengen visa has been disappointing, to say the least. I hope sharing this serves as a cautionary tale for others considering a similar application.
I would never ever apply from Belgium again.
Here is the timeline.
3rd of May 2024 Applied in Manchester TLS
10th of May 2024- Passport returned to the TLS

https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-centelibrary/electronic-announcements/2024-05-10/2024-25-fafsa-update-processing-paper-fafsa-forms-implementing-school-initiated-corrections-and-temporary-changes-process-reporting-disbursements-provide-institutional-flexibility
“The Department recommends that all students, even those who have submitted a paper FAFSA, complete the online FAFSA if possible unless the student filed a paper FAFSA to meet an aid or scholarship deadline prior to the availability of online processing. Filing an online FAFSA will negate the paper filing date.”
Check with your schools and scholarship administrators to see which you should do. Most will want you to file the online version ASAP because we’ll get the data sooner than if we wait for your paper FAFSA to be processed.

I study better on paper but the pdfs e.g. arrows have too many pages, so difficult to print. If anyone's done the work to copy-paste and compress the info into fewer pages i'd appreciate if you could share.

This is going to be a long one. Firstly, the Confession of Dositheus, a confession ratified by the Pan-Orthodox Council of Jerusalem in 1672 and signed by all Patriarchs since the Council of Crete in 2016, says the following in its second decree (you can read it here https://www.crivoice.org/creeddositheus.html ):
"but the Catholic Church, as never having spoken, or speaking from herself, but from the Spirit of God – who being her teacher, she is ever unfailingly rich – it is impossible for her to in any wise err, or to at all deceive, or be deceived; but like the Divine Scriptures, is infallible, and hath perpetual authority." (Confession of Dositheus, Decree 2)
However, it appears as if the Orthodox Church has erred in at least two places in its councils. Firstly, the Council of Jassy in 1642 ratified the Confession of Peter Moghila, which states the following in its 104th decree (https://maksimologija.org/mogila-orthodox-confession ):
"The ointment of chrism is the second mystery; and this had its beginning at the time when the Holy Spirit came down from heaven and rested upon the Apostles, and sealed them with his divine grace, that they might preach the faith of Christ steadfastly and without ceasing. Of this blessing and divine assistance hath every one need who becometh a Christian; and as then the Holy Spirit came down in the visible form of fire and bestowed his grace, or gifts, upon the Apostles, so now, when the priest anointeth the newly baptised person with the holy oil, he becomes endued from above with the gifts of the Holy Spirit: As appears from the words which the priest (as appointed) useth in the celebration of this Mystery; namely, the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit, Amen. As if he should say, By the anointing of this holy ointment thou art sealed and confirmed into the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which thou dost receive for a confirmation of thy Christian faith. Agreeable hereto are the words of the Apostle (2 Cor. 1.21), He which establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God: Who hath also sealed us, and given the Earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. This Anointing, or rather the bestowing the Efficacy of this Unction, was done in the times of the Apostles by laying on of hands; according to the Scripture (Acts 8.17), Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. This was afterwards performed by anointing with ointment, as we learn from St Dionysius the Areopagite, who was the Disciple of St Paul (Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, chs. 2 and 4)."
^ The text above clearly attributes the work of Pseudo-Dionysius to Dionysius the Areopagite as mentioned in the book of acts. By citing Ecclesiastical Hierarchy here, it is saying that this text was written by a disciple of the historical Paul. The problem is that scholarship is unanimous that the works of Pseudo-Dionysius are dependant on Proclus, who wrote in the late 5th century. Even if this is not true, we do not have any unambiguous mentions of the work of Dionysius before the sixth century, which would be odd if he was a prominent apostle, who, according to Church tradition, later became the Bishop of Athens. Furthermore, this work, Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, contains references to ecclesiastical structures that were not present in the first century. Furthermore, Pseudo-Dionysius contains references to theurgy, yet this term first appears in the Chaldean Oracles, the earliest of which were written in the third century. There are no references to theurgy from the first century.
A= 'we learn [that it was performed by anointing with oitment] from St Dionysius the Areopagite, who was the Disciple of St Paul'
B= St Dionysius the Areopagite was the Disciple of St Paul
A → B
B = false
∴ A is false
Below I have attached some resources on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite:
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05013a.htm
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20717171?searchText=pseudo-dionysius&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dpseudo-dionysius%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A989329de8aa08b25bc69195915261da6
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jmedirelicult.43.1.0001?searchText=pseudo-dionysius&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dpseudo-dionysius%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A0cf11a64bb46b55bdcccfcdfc0cf3e38
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20474890?searchText=pseudo-dionysius&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dpseudo-dionysius%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A17c51552dad6f7378aaae7441274950f
It is considered completely untenable that he was a disciple of St. Paul by modern scholarship. Regarding earlier texts that seem to mention him, modern scholarship has shown that instead, Pseudo-Dionysius was dependant on these: "Until more recently more credit was given to other lines of evidence on which Franz Hipler endeavoured to support his entirely new thesis, to the effect that the author of the writings lived about the year 375 in Egypt, as Abbot of Rhinokorura. Hipler's attempts, however, at removing the textual difficulties, ekleipsis, adelphotheos, soma, proved to be unsuccessful. In fact, those very passages in which Hipler thought that the Fathers had made use of the Areopagite (e.g., in Gregory of Nazianzus and Jerome) do not tell in favor of this hypothesis; on the contrary, they are much better explained if the converse be assumed, namely, that Pseudo-Dionysius drew from them. Hipler himself, convinced by the results of recent research, has abandoned his opinion." (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Note that the letter describing the reception of the Confession of Peter Moghila describes it as such:
"…vested with the most full and plenary power of the whole sacred Synod; he went into Moldavia, as we have said, together with Porphyrius; whither also, sent from the Russians, came Isaias Trophinus, and Conovicius, and Xenovicius; men truly excellent, adorned with all kind of learning and liberal knowledge. These three taking God only for their guide and master, who is the giver of all knowledge, and of all true holiness and understanding, brought the book to this excellent conclusion; having by much mutual disquisition and disputation thoroughly purged it from all foreign doctrines and defilements of novelty, and then forthwith he sent it to the most holy four orthodox patriarchs, the successors in the seats of the Apostles, to be reviewed and considered of. They also confirmed it with their approbation, as containing the true and genuine doctrines, and in nothing departing from the sincere and catholic faith of the Greeks, and declared it to be pure and uncorrupt; by the universal judgement, determination and consent of all, and furthermore by their own proper subscription, and of their clergy as appears hereunto annexed, they decreed and confirmed it; and entitled it, not only of the Russians, but by a more universal Appellation, The orthodox Confession of all the Greeks. Yet however, this book as it was but lately to be had in print among the Russians, so among the Greeks it was only to be had in manuscripts, and that but very rarely. Whereupon, the Lord Panagiota, Interpreter to his imperial Majesty of the East and West, a person of wisdom and piety, and entirely devoted to true religion; as he is most regardful and affectionate of our Greek nation, and zealous contender for the orthodox faith; among his many other magnificent works and public employments, wherein he is daily and hourly engaged, he willingly undertook the care and patronage of this also; and caused this book to be printed at his own expense in our and the latin languages, that every one, who was desirous to increase in piety, might without any expense (for he caused the copies to be distributed to all gratis) be provided with a book, from when as from a source of pure and living water, and out of the genuine fountain of salvation draw the sacred doctrine of our Church, unpolluted with the muddy and foreign opinions of sectaries. And now, let no one marvel, that this book is expressed in a plain style, and unadorned with eloquence; seeing that thereby, it is not only fitted for the learned, but the unlearned multitude also. For the wise and prudent reader ought not to regard the unfinished manner of expression, but the truth of the words and thoughts." (Prefatory Letter of Patriarch Nectarius of Jerusalem)
The above quote can once again be found here: https://maksimologija.org/mogila-orthodox-confession/
This letter describes the way in which the Confession was declared as ‘containing the true and genuine doctrines, and in nothing departing from the sincere and catholic faith of the Greeks, and declared it to be pure and uncorrupt; by the universal judgement, determination and consent of all’ by the patriarchs who signed off on it. As such, it seems that it was viewed as infallible.
The Pan-Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem, in ratifying the Confession of Peter Moghila, says this: "And only some six or seven years ago at the most there was published a book intituled The Orthodox Confession of the Eastern Church, which the IVTost Holy Metropolitan, Peter of Kieff, compiled ; and which was revised* and corrected, where revision and correction were needed, at the instance of the Synod of Jassy, by the Protosyncellus and Preacher of the Great Church at Constantinople, Meletius Syrigus, from Crete. And this the Eastern Church hath entirely received, and doth receive ; and the same was published" (Dositheus et al. 2011: pp. 15)
You can find this text on internet archive: https://archive.org/details/actsanddecreess00lucagoog/page/n26/mode/2up?q=Kieff
Dositheos, Robertson James Nathaniel William Beauchamp, and Cyril Lucaris. The acts and decrees of the synod of jerusalem: Sometimes called the Council of Bethlehem, Holden under Dositheus, patriarch of jerusalem in 1672. Charleston, SC: BiblioLife, 2011.
The Holy Spirit didn't lead the Synod of Jassy to correct the authorship of the Dionysian corpus? This part implies that correction and revision were not needed in decree 104 of the Confession of Peter Moghila, and, furthermore, that the Church entirely receives the confession as dogmatic.
Secondly, the Horos of the Photian Council of 879, considered the eighth ecumenical council by Orthodox Christians, says this (read it here https://www.oodegr.com/english/dogma/synodoi/8th_Synod_Dragas.htm ):
"Jointly sanctifying and preserving intact the venerable and divine teaching of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which has been established in the bosom of our mind, with unhesitating resolve and purity of faith, as well as the sacred ordinances and canonical stipulations of his holy disciples and Apostles with an unwavering judgment, and indeed, those Seven holy and ecumenical Synods which were directed by the inspiration of the one and the same Holy Spirit and effected the [Christian] preaching, and jointly guarding with a most honest and unshakeable resolve the canonical institutions invulnerable and unfalsified, we expel those who removed themselves from the Church, and embrace and regard worthy of receiving those of the same faith or teachers of orthodoxy to whom honor and sacred respect is due as they themselves ordered."
In this statement, there is an entailment that the disciples have sacred ordinances and canonical stipulations.
The entailment is as follows:
We expel those… → ([we are] Jointly sanctifying and preserving intact… the sacred ordinances and canonical stipulations of his holy disciples and Apostles with an unwavering judgment (based on sentence structure) → The Apostles have canonical stipulations)
Here, the structure of the sentence shows that "we expel those who removed themselves from the Church, and embrace and regard worthy of receiving those of the same faith or teachers of orthodoxy to whom honor and sacred respect is due as they themselves ordered" is dependent upon 'jointly sanctifying and preserving in tact...the sacred ordinances and canonical stipulations of his holy disciples and Apostles'
A = 'we expel those who removed themselves from the Church, and embrace and regard worthy of receiving those of the same faith or teachers of orthodoxy to whom honor and sacred respect is due as they themselves ordered.'
The sentence structure indicates that this entails B:
B = [we are] Jointly sanctifying and preserving intact… the sacred ordinances and canonical stipulations of his holy disciples and Apostles with an unwavering judgment
C= The Apostles have canonical stipulations
A → (B → C) = (A ˄ B) → C
For example, if I say 'keeping in mind the letter that Obama wrote me, I will do x', this entails that Obama wrote me a letter. If my statement entails something false, the statement is false: If p is false and q is true or p is true and q is false, the statement is still false.
P. Q. P + Q
TRUE. TRUE. TRUE FALSE. TRUE. FALSE
TRUE. FALSE. FALSE
FALSE FALSE. FALSE
So lets say that p + q is '(we are) Jointly sanctifying and preserving intact...the sacred ordinances and canonical stipulations of his holy disciples and Apostles with an unwavering judgment'
p = (we are) Jointly sanctifying and preserving intact...the sacred ordinances...of his holy disciples and Apostles with an unwavering judgment
q= (we are) Jointly sanctifying and preserving intact...canonical stipulations of his holy disciples and Apostles with an unwavering judgment'
Even if the Disciples have ordinances, if p+q =B above (based on the text) and q entails C then if C is false q is false and p + q is also false.
B = p+q
B→ C
p+q → C
p ⊭ C
q → C
C= false
∴ q = false
∴ p + q = false
A → B and B = p + q
A → p + q
∴ A = false
The problem is, it is considered completely untenable that the canons of the apostles actually go back to the apostles, as they quote canons from the Council of Antioch in 341 and reference a type of Church hierarchy not present in authentic writings from the first century written by presumed successors of the apostles. They are also not mentioned before the 4th century, which is very suspect for a canonical collection supposedly left by the apostles to help govern the Church. If the council of Antioch is instead dependent on the canons, why does it not cite them? If there are other canons that go back to the Apostles, where are they, and what is the evidence that they do? Certainly no other canonical collection states that it has a directly apostolic origin. Thus, it can be said that the Horos of the Eighth Ecumenical Council entails something false, which means in no ambiguous terms that it has erred.
Note that the statement from the Confession of Dositheus reads: "it is impossible for her to in any wise err, or to at all deceive, or be deceived; but like the Divine Scriptures, is infallible, and hath perpetual authority" (Decree 2) and again "In like manner the Church is taught indeed by the Life-giving Spirit, but through the medium of the holy Fathers and Doctors (whose rule is acknowledged to be the Holy and Ecumenical Synods; for we shall not cease to say this ten thousand times); and, therefore, not only are we persuaded, but do profess as true and undoubtedly certain, that it is impossible for the Catholic Church to err, or at all be deceived, or ever to choose falsehood instead of truth. For the All-holy Spirit continually operating through the holy Fathers and Leaders faithfully ministering, delivers the Church from error of every kind." (Decree 12)
If we call the second quote above x, it seems that x entails the truth of all other binding statements the church has made. Statement A from further above is binding because of its presence in a Horos (definition) from an ecumenical council.
Horoi from Ecumenical Councils are binding and infallible
A is a Horos
∴ A is binding and infallible
x from decree 12 → A
A is false
∴ x is false
You can read the following sources on the Canons of the 'Apostles' and why scholarship is unanimous as to their status as a forgery or fraud: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23947920?searchText=apostolic+canons&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dapostolic%2Bcanons%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Afb0f4deadf16b447c63b049972f4248e
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23948013?searchText=apostolic+canons+authorship&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dapostolic%2Bcanons%2Bauthorship%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Aef8cb9e3774f5026b5fccc1979d79eb1&seq=8
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03279a.htm
https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01/encyc01.html?term=Apostolic%20Constitutions%20and%20Canons
etc.
Note that 'canonical stipulations of his holy disciples and Apostles' is not the name of a document, and, if the statement should be analyzed [canonical] [stipulations] rather than [canonical stipulations], why would there be stipulations of the Apostles that wouldn't be canonical if they are the guardians of Church tradition received from Christ?
From these two arguments, it is clear that the Orthodox Church has erred and been deceived into thinking that forgeries are legitimate and actually originate from their pseudonymous attributions. Error and deception are just what the Holy Spirit was supposed to prevent according to the Pan-Orthodox and binding Confession of Dositheus. If a pan-Orthodox council signed by all Patriarchs with the same authority as other ecumenical councils as per i.e. the acts of the seventh ecumenical council (https://ubipetrusibiecclesia.com/2020/07/03/what-makes-a-council-ecumenical/#nicaea2 ) can be wrong, how can anything in Orthodox tradition be trusted? Keep in mind these are not disciplinary canons either, the texts cited are meant to be a binding confession of faith (for the Confession of Peter Moghila), and the definition (Horos) of an ecumenical council (the Horos of the Photian Council of 879). On the ecumenical status of the latter in the east, see https://www.oodegr.com/english/dogma/synodoi/8th_Synod_Dragas.htm and https://orthodoxwiki.org/Eighth_Ecumenical_Council
On the ecumenical status of the Council of Jassy see https://orthodoxchristiantheology.com/2022/12/21/the-delayed-synodical-receptions-of-the-councils-of-jasy-1642-and-jerusalem-1672/
The Photian Council was also ecumenical in Rome for a while before they opted to go with the earlier robber council as the legitimate one, so this post may also falsify Roman Catholicism.

Good day.
Just wanted to ask - after submitting the acceptance form to OASIS, did you receive anything else from DLSU besides their acknowledgment email? Are we both just waiting for the scholarship orientation on July 1st? Did you submit any additional documents or forms besides the acceptance form?
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